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The following certified SSDs are recommended for use with the URSA Mini SSD Recorder when shooting on the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro.

The following SSDs are recommended for 4.6K Lossless RAW up to 30p.

Angelbird AV Pro 500GB

Angelbird AV Pro XT 500GB

Angelbird AV Pro XT 1TB

Angelbird AV Pro XT 2TB

Angelbird AV Pro XT 4TB

Kingston DC400 480GB

Kingston DC400 960GB

Kingston SSDnow KC400 128GB

Samsung 850 PRO 1TB

Samsung 850 EVO 4TB

Sony G series Professional SSD. SVGS48 480GB

Sony G Series Professional SSD. SVGS96 960GB

Transcend SSD370 512GB

The following SSD’s are recommended for 4.6K ProRes 444XQ up to 30p.

Angelbird AV Pro 500GB

Angelbird AV Pro XT 500GB

Angelbird AV Pro XT 1TB

Angelbird AV Pro XT 2TB

Angelbird AV Pro XT 4TB

Kingston DC400 480GB

Kingston DC400 960GB

Kingston SSDnow KC400 128GB

Samsung 850 PRO 1TB

Samsung 850 EVO 1TB

Samsung 850 EVO 4TB

Sony G series Professional SSD. SVGS48 480GB

Sony G Series Professional SSD. SVGS96 960GB

Transcend SSD370 512GB

Western Digital WD Blue 1TB

The following SSD’s are recommended for 2160p ProRes 422 HQ up to 60 fps.

Angelbird AV Pro 500GB

Angelbird AV Pro XT 500GB

Angelbird AV Pro XT 1TB

Angelbird AV Pro XT 2TB

Angelbird AV Pro XT 4TB

Crucial MX300 2TB

Innodisk 3MG2-P 2TB

Kingston DC400 480GB

Kingston DC400 960GB

Kingston SSDnow KC400 128GB

Samsung 850 PRO 1TB

Samsung 850 EVO 1TB

Samsung 850 EVO 4TB

SanDisk SDSSDP-064G 64GB

Sony G series Professional SSD. SVGS48 480GB

Sony G Series Professional SSD. SVGS96 960GB

Transcend SSD370 512GB

Western Digital WD Blue 1TB

Wise Cinema 240GB. CMS-0240 240GB

*Important notes about SSD speed

Some SSD models cannot save video data at the speed the manufacturer claims. This is due to the disk using hidden data compression to attain higher write speeds. This data compression can only save data at the manufacturer’s claimed speed when storing data such as blank data or simple files. Video data includes video noise and pixels which are more random so compression will not help, therefore revealing the true speed of the disk.

Some SSDs can have up to 50% lower write speed than the manufacturer’s claimed speed. So even though the disk specifications claim an SSD has speeds fast enough to handle video, in reality the disk is not fast enough when used to store video data for real time capture.

Use the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test to accurately measure whether your SSD will be able to handle high data rate video capture and playback. Blackmagic Disk Speed Test uses data to simulate the storage of video so you get results similar to what you will see when capturing video to a disk. During Blackmagic Design’s testing, we have found newer, larger SSD models and larger capacity SSDs are generally faster.